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As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards the accomplishment of its true destinies.

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The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

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Until now, external authority still dominate too much in the relationships between men, as well as in their spiritual life. This is due to the fact that we regard authority, in all fields, as being what makes the law, because in the empirical field, it is always what come first, may it be a force, an individual or an argument, that is winning.

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If the present civilization does not acquire some stable moral foundations, its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilizations that have preceded it, and which have fallen.

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Men in general are too inclined to let themselves be overawed by what is quantitatively great. It is thus that even thoughtful minds let themselves be impressed by the strength of Napoleon I, to much so that seeing in his person something majestic, when indeed he only have had selfish plans. Half the earth is put to fire and sword to obtain to a man the pleasant sensation of his own absolute power.

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A savage man, questioned on what is good and what is wrong, answered: 'Right is when I defeat and deprive others; wrong is when I am beaten and deprived by them.' This is the voice of the natural man, who does not understand that good is always good, and wrong is always wrong, whether it happens to ourselves or it happens to others.

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There are some who esteem that it is a naivety to believe that a moral regeneration may be possible; now, if this was not the case, it would not be worth the trouble that humanity continue to vegetate without aim.

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If man do not find in himself the required force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can try to put himself in the conditions suitable to assist his self-control.

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As long as men, in their aberration, will go out of their way in every manners to harm and torment each others, it is an urgent duty, for those who are conscious of the absurdity of such a state of affairs, to strive to put them in the picture about their wildness.

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